DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. 3i 



Department of Oriental Printed Books and 

 Manuscripts. 



Cataloguing and Arrangement. — The numbers of the 

 sheets of the various Oriental Catalogues sent to press in 

 1903 are : — Bengali MSS-, 2 sheets ; Chinese (Accessions), 

 5 sheets ; Coptic MSS., 6 sheets ; Hebrew MSS., 17 sheets ; 

 Hindi (Accessions), o| sheets ; Japanese (Accessions), 7 sheets ; 

 Panjabi Books, 1 sheet ; Sanskrit Books, 5 sheets. 



The numbers of the Titles written for the Catalogues 

 are : — Annamite, 14 ; Arabic, 1141 ; Aramaic, 4 ; Armenian, 

 132; Assamese, 35 ; Baluchi, 8; Bengali, 250; Burmese, 41 ; 

 Cambodian, 1 ; Canarese, 38 ; Chinese, 193 ; Coptic, 2 ; 

 Ethiopic, 2 ; Georgian, 21 ; Gujarati, 174 ; Hebrew, 71 ; 

 Hindi, 261 ; Hindustani, 399; Japanese, 107; Javanese, 12; 

 Kachin, 2 ; Karen, 1 ; Laos, 1 ; Malay, 36 ; Malayalam, 3 ; 

 Maltese, 16 ; Manipuri, 4; Marathi, 87 ; Oriya, 48; Panjabi, 

 115; Persian, 170; Pushtu, 36; Samaritan, 2; Sanskrit, 

 1,213; Santali, 2; Siamese, 2; Sindhi, 42; Sinhalese, 4; 

 Syriac, 25 ; Tamil, 84 ; Telugu, 422 ; Tibetan, 4 ; Turkish, 

 124; Zend, 11. 



Fifty-six Coptic MSS., 14 Hebrew MSS., 34 Pushtu MSS., 

 1 Samaritan MS., and 1 Syriac MS. have been fully cata- 

 logued. 



Short descriptions of 92 MSS. have been entered in the 

 Descriptive List, the Regist^er, and the Classed Inventory. 



Seventy MSS. (ff. 13,154) have been folioed. 



Binding. — The numbers of Printed Books and MSS. sent 

 to the binders are : — Arabic Books, 228 ; Chinese Books, 10 ; 

 Hebrew Books, 22; Sanskrit Books, 273; MSS., 116; 

 Pamphlets, 151. 



Students. — The number of Students working in the 

 Students' Room attached to the Department during the year 

 is 2,594. The number of Oriental Printed Books consulted 

 in the Department is 3,997, and of those used in the Reading 

 Room 248. The number of Oriental MSS. consulted in the 

 Students' Room is 4,780. 



Additions. — The number of works added to the Depart- 

 ment during the year is 2,550, of which 2,179 are Printed 

 Books, and 371 are MSS. 



Of the Printed Books, 285 were bought ; 1,702 were received 

 under the India Copyright Act ; 57 were received under the 

 Colonial Copyright Act ; and 135 were presented. 



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